Who are those guys?
Desert Dolphin, Inc. is a full service marketing group with offices in Durango, Colorado and San Luis Obispo, California. That sounds bigtime, doesn't it? Actually, it's just four principals with an impressive range of skills and experience.
So, what is "Full Service"? Well, we have experience in all the usual suspects: corporate identity (logos), collateral (brochures, flyers, stuff like that), radio, marketing and advertising campaigns, events coordination, trade show exhibits and support, packaging, website development, photography, illustration, video production, public relations, internet and social website marketing, and a bunch of stuff we've forgotten to mention here.
So What? The thing is, those are all merely tools. We always begin with a solid marketing strategy based upon a few good questions. What are we selling? Who is our audience? And what is the most cost-effective method to reach them? Once we've answered those, the rest is just implementation. Of course, it helps to have a bunch of award winning designers working on it.
Paul and Lindamarie Ambrose man (or woman) the Durango office. Refugees from California's Silicon Valley, they have worked with some of the largest national accounts like: Apple, IBM, Arthur Andersen, Holiday Inn, National Semiconductor, Hewlett Packard, Intel, Paul Masson Winery, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Pacific Bell, Hughes Aircraft and others. Along the way, they have won every major award* their industry has to offer, if you care about that sort of thing. They don't.
As Paul says, "We have never received an award based on how well the piece worked for the client, which is all that really matters at the end of the day."
Huc and Erin Ambrose run the San Luis Obispo office in California. Both graduates of Cal-Poly in graphic design, advertising or something like that, they have been dazzling the locals with original work for the last decade or so.
Oh, you noticed the similarity in the names, did you? Yep, this is nepotism at it's best. Huc is Paul's son. They have worked together for six years and the communication twixt the two offices flows constantly.
Whichever door you enter, the work is distributed to the appropriate persons, including a wide variety of outside auxillary support personnel. We look forward to talking with you.

*We don't need no stinking badges. The New York Art Directors Club, The American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), The Americam Advertising Federation (Best in the West). The Western Art Directors Club, Communication Arts Magazine and bunches of lesser ones.